Unify Action - May 15, 2025


Will Mark Carney's Gun Bans = Less Crime？

Hosted by
Sarah Dotzert
Quite the Turn Around This Will Change Your Perspective on Canadian Party Leadership

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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

171.22

Word count

670

Sentence count

35

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Misogyny

1

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5

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In this episode, we talk about gun control in the wake of the recent mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Do we need a permanent ban on guns? What is the root cause of gun crime? Why do some people choose to have guns, and why do others choose not to?

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00:00:00.000 Do you think there should be a permanent ban on guns?
00:00:02.500 Yes.
00:00:03.500 I do believe so.
00:00:05.500 Not in that way, no.
00:00:06.500 What do you guys think about a permanent gun ban? 0.97
00:00:09.500 I think it would be nice.
00:00:11.500 There's never a scenario where we need guns to resolve issues in this world.
00:00:15.500 What do you think, though, about the indigenous peoples and stuff that need their weapons? 1.00
00:00:19.500 For hunting and just their lifestyles.
00:00:21.500 A lot of Inuit actually need weapons to protect themselves, but also for hunting. 1.00
00:00:26.500 Uh, I see. I think there should just be more regulation. 1.00
00:00:37.500 So a lot of the gun crime that we see is not from legal gun owners.
00:00:41.500 98% of it is actually from people who don't have a possession and acquisition license.
00:00:46.500 They don't know how to use it properly.
00:00:48.500 88% of the guns that are actually used in gun violence in Canada, they come through the southern border.
00:00:54.500 So a gun ban would actually lessen someone's ability to protect themselves
00:00:59.500 and would have almost no effect on gun crime.
00:01:02.500 But do you think that if we removed guns from the hands of civilians,
00:01:06.500 do you think criminals would still be able to get them?
00:01:10.500 I think so.
00:01:13.500 I think people are always going to find a way to get the things that they want. 0.55
00:01:18.500 If we have a ban, they'll still get those guns.
00:01:21.500 So I think that's an issue that the government needs to figure out.
00:01:23.500 They still have other weapons to do, to do the crimes.
00:01:28.500 Do you think then it doesn't speak to the problem of the instrument itself, the gun in this case?
00:01:35.500 Do you think it speaks more to the fact that we have a problem with human condition?
00:01:38.500 I think it is a humanity problem maybe, not so much a gun problem.
00:01:42.500 And what do you think would be the root cause of crime?
00:01:46.500 Well, there's just bad people out there.
00:01:50.500 But what made them bad?
00:01:52.500 I couldn't tell you that. I have no idea.
00:01:55.980 Yeah, I don't think there's one answer for why people choose to be bad,
00:02:00.200 like how they're raised, like how they grow up, things they're exposed to.
00:02:04.780 A lot of these things can form ideas in their head and change,
00:02:09.580 or deviate their lifestyle away from what's considered as good.
00:02:12.760 A lot of this gun violence actually began in the 60s and 80s,
00:02:17.540 when morality actually loosened,
00:02:20.140 And we no longer taught religion in schools.
00:02:23.260 We no longer allowed prayer in schools or the Ten Commandments.
00:02:27.360 So there was this kind of laxing of morality.
00:02:30.160 Should we be teaching morality more in schools?
00:02:33.860 Morality absolutely should be taught.
00:02:36.620 That is not something you should ever avoid talking about.
00:02:39.460 The morality and deciding what is right and wrong
00:02:42.360 does ultimately bring up the question of who made the rules
00:02:45.960 and why we should abide by those rules, right?
00:02:48.860 Exactly.
00:02:49.300 Belief in a supreme God that is watching you and is going to judge you has an incredible impact on the person's conscience and whether they're going to actually commit a crime.
00:03:02.700 Because if someone doesn't think that there is a supreme God out there and he is going to repay you for the things that you do in this world, if someone doesn't have that belief, then they can do whatever they want, right?
00:03:15.340 and if someone does have that belief though it's it has an incredible effect
00:03:21.700 on their behavior in public and on their conduct as a citizen yeah I do agree
00:03:28.300 with you that a belief may be helped with a person's moral we can see that
00:03:33.820 our country was built on Christian principles and those really benefited
00:03:38.780 our country because the fundamental Christian belief is that what you want 0.58
00:03:42.460 done to yourself, you do to others. So you treat others good because you want to be treated good.
00:03:47.980 That's what we were built on and when we threw that away, we saw the destruction of society pretty much.